Bash on Ubuntu on Windows – SSH using private key and Windows permissions

and for the most part it “just works”, however I did run into an issue trying to SSH into a server using
a key rather than password. OpenSSH requires that permissions on the key file are only readable by the current user.
Trying to connect results in the following error:

Doesn’t help, as *nix permissions don’t really map to Windows file permissions. I read some suggestions that you can adjust the permissions in Windows using the “advanced security settings” tabs in properites
but this didn’t work for me.

What did work was copying the key to the Ubuntu subsystem users home, and then chmodding that, then using that to ssh from eg: